Essay Index

Here are links to some of the Essays I've done for this site that I feel worthy of notice. (Or, in some cases, worthy of warning an unprepared reader of.) They are divided into subcatagories for convenience sake.

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Archetypes

I've written several articles listing various fictional archetypes and categories. A bit silly, a bit serious. Reader milage may vary.

Topics include:

• Fantastic Fiction
• Fiction
• Giant Monster Movies
• Mad Scientists
  
• Psychics - Now with Addendum!
  

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Bloody Vikings!

I was hit with spam and came up with several essays on the matter. Which probably says too much about me... Complete in three parts.

Part One/Two/Three

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Ego Boost Week 2005!

For the heck of it, I decided on spending a week singing my own praises. Very egocentric, but in a sad, pathetic way. It begins with this bit of nonsense, but you can skip that and move to essays glorifying my Drawing Skill, Tree Climbing Decorum, My Writing and the Occasional Completion of the Same, a Trip to Alaska that happened half a lifetime ago, and Two Cases of Serendipity. Read on, and be thankful that I am me! And that you don't have to be.

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Friendly Scissors

A series on censorship. Contains a beginning, a middle, but no end. Yet.

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General Essays

Here is a list of short essays that don't fit in any other subcatagory. Kind of.

• Anime - This details my "discovery" of Anime.
• Endings - Thoughts on what makes a good ending
• Forbidden Secrets, Forbidden Places, Forbidden Things - Listing of the aformentioned three in Fantastic Fiction
  
• Godzilla - General Thoughts - Musings on Godzilla that I used as a prologue to my reviews of his movies.
• The Lost Art of Debate - Pretty much what the title says it is.
  
• My Cousin Emily - One more in my endless attempts to get my cousin Emily's goat. Don't worry, Emily; it's not going to be a recurring theme (as far as you know...)
• On Writing in General - Like the title says, general thoughts on writing.Perception: The Mock Poster Lesson - Commentary on the relationship between the artist and the audience. More on the Mock Posters can be found at the Image Index
• Similar Thought, Copying, and the Dread P Word - Aimless rambling on an aspect of writing. Not my most shining hour.
• Stuff Dreams are Made of - One of the first essays on the site and it shows. Please. Be kind.
• Y is Tire/X is Dead - Discusses whether a topic can actually be played out.
• :-{ ? - A silly bit of nothing on a lack of smilies.

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Inspiration

Wandering essay on the variations of Inspiration. Currently about half done.

Part One/Two/Three

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Super Heroic Essays

Various essays on Super Heroes, including:

• Aquaman's Secret Shame
• Power Girl
• Silly Super Hero cars.

This is Not a Series of Essays About Power Girl: Also, I have a rather long series of essays about the Fall of Spider-man which are, for some reason, Power Girl tinted. Wonder why that is? It's called and consists of several Parts.

Part One/Two/Three/Four/Five

Fantastic Writers Index

Essays on Writers

Here are my little essays of various writers of Fantastic Fiction

King, Stephen
Koontz, Dean
Lovecraft, Howard Phillip
Poe, Edgar Allen
Sturgeon, Theodore
Takahasi Rumiko
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Twain, Mark

Quotes from Writers

Here are quotes and bits of writing from various writers that I found improved my understanding of writing and were worthy of discussion.

Gene Wolfe
Stephen Crane
Hugh Mearns

Fiction Index

This is an index covering all of the fiction on this site.

• Cthulhu and Son - Even the child of a Great Old One can get himself into trouble. A single panel comic.
• The Date - A romantic evening can be thwarted by the smallest details.
• Strange Dialogue - A brief, odd exchange between two peculiar people.
• Waiting for the Long Sleep - A small, unpleasent break in a long trip. More of a vignette than a story proper

Image Index

Here are a collection of my drawings and photos that can be found on site. With luck, there will be no broken links:

Cod Gamera - An image inspired by the Friend to Children Everywhere

Cthulhu and Son - A wee one panel comic for your amusement.

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Dark Crystal Sketches

Sketches of various characters from the Dark Crystal. The characters are Augrha, Jen, and a nameless Mystic.

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Goofy - a sketch of the Disney Character
Horse - Just what the title suggests. It was indicated to me that the original was in too dark a color. Thus, a second image. Sometimes I'm flexible. Just don't rely on it...

Medusa - Images of the dreaded Gorgon, complete with color commentary.

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Mock Posters

I made three mock posters for the novel I was working on. Poster #1/#2/#3. Also included is commentary on the nature of the artist/audience relationship

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Serpent - A flawed work, in the end, but the detailing is good. Comes with a brief dialogue!
Sphinx - Multiple pictures, so that iffin you don't like my version of a Sphinx, you have another to look at.
Super Deformed Generic Hero - Pretty much, that's what it is.
Serpent - A flawed work, in the end, but the detailing is good

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Welltun Cares Presents

A series of one panel cartoons. Poorly drawn from the start of the my big push into art. Note: these are in order of posting and not alphabetical. I know, I know, that was obvious. Still, I feel better saying it...
Indecision!
Doubts!
Romance!
Heroism!
Chershirish Delight!
Adjustment!
Boredom!
Proof That I Can Indeed Draw! - AKA the Bunny Drawing.

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Serpent - A flawed work, in the end, but the detailing is goodWild Ride - A sight one won't likely see again in future. (Unless, of course, you have the right toys...)

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Also, as a special bonus, the second background for this site, in small

and large sizes (really. This is the large of the two.):
The original background looked like this:

Poetry Index

Here are the links to the poetry on this site:

• At the Gates to Eternity - A wandering soul is denied entrance through the Gates to Eternity.
• Cthulhu - A haiku to the Old One that teaches pleasure is pain
• Cuckoo Clock - A silly sonnet about a cuckoo clock running away from home.
• The Hanging of the Innocent Man - a bit of preteniousness from my younger days.
• A Most Curious Advertisement - Old fashion spam from the future!
• Night Visitors - Keep the feeties under the covers!
• Nothing - A bit of free verse.
• Ode to a Lost Notion - A poem I once believed lost! Perhaps it should have been...
• Raven - Poe has no worries here from my haiku
• Unicorn Punisher - If I had any self-respect left, I probably would have deleted this by now...
• Smurfs - Another haiku. Hey, man, they were big in my youth. Well, very little, but big...
• Something - Right now one of my favorites
• The Whispers of Men

Review Index

Here are links to all of the Reviews I've done for this site.

• Afterwards - A review of a short story

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Anime Reviews

• Battle of the Planets - A partial review
• Kankurenbo/Hide and Seek
  
• The King Kong Show - Volume One
• Speed Racer - More of a gushing than an honest review.
  

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• Chô kowai hanashi A: Yami no karasu/Cursed
• The Creature Walks Among Us
• The Dark Crystal
• Masters of Horror - Cigarette Burns
• Gojira/Godzilla
  
• Open House - This is extremely unfair, as I hadn't finished the movie when I wrote it. However, as I neared the end of the film, my opinion hasn't changed...
  
• Rodan
• Sinnui yauwan/A Chinese Ghost Story - This is a part of a larger series talking about Romance in the fantastic, but you don't have to read the whole series to get this. Actually, you'd probably be better off if you didn't...
• The Thing(s) - A review of The Thing from Another World and its remake, The Thing
• The 2nd Shortest Review of "Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince" You Will Ever Likely to Read - Really. One of the shortest reviews of the novel you will ever read.

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Twilight Zone

• Death-head Revisited
• It's a Good Life
• A Passage for Trumpet
• Shadow Play - Now with Addendum!

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• Velocity - a novel

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Capsule Reviews

• Horrors of Spider Island and Track of the Moon Beast

The Godzilla Films

Prologue: General Thoughts on Godzilla
Showa Series

Part1 /2 / 3

Heisei Series

Part 1 /2

Millennium Years

Top Ten(ish) Lists

• Fantasy Novels (and series)
• Horror Novels - The list that goes to Eleven!
• Science Fiction Novels

The Hell...?! Index

The realm of the Fantastic goes into some really strange places sometimes. On this, spending time in the Fantastic sometimes leads to odd thoughts. Here are but a few of them.

• Bizarre Crossovers into the Final Frontier
• A Very Smurfy War
• First Personal Jesus
• A Cimmerian X-Mas?
• Superman and the Curse of the Acronym
• A Half Heard Ad
• Wonderful World of DEATH
• What's Getting a Criterion Release?
• One-on-One